The one guide you'll need to know about the openings coming your way in the week ahead. This week a very promising Thai-inspired restaurant comes to Farringdon, Bubala arrive in Covent Garden, Solis bring their chicken and steak to a standalone Soho space and more...
PAM
Clerkenwell - 61 Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 6HA
PAM comes from ex-Kiln head chef Karla Knowles and it's the first of two restaurants that she'll be opening in the coming months. For this, she's teaming up with the group behind Cocotte and Casa Felicia for "a playful and creative Thai restaurant in the heart of Farringdon". She's been running hugely successful supper clubs in the run-up to the opening and this is definitely one to watch.
Opening date: 22 October 2026
Solis
Soho - 26 Kingly Street, Carnaby, London W1B 5QD
Solis comes from the team Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng (occasionally better known as TATA Eatery) and it sees them bringing the chicken and steak restaurant that they started at Arcade into its own space. That means there will be new dishes (like a Chateaubriand with steak sauce, chimichurri and aji picante), desserts and cocktails (alongside the sangria, of course).
Opening date: 20 October 2026
Bubala
Covent Garden - 14 Garrick Street, London WC2E 9BJ
This is the fourth Bubala restaurant and it's also going to be their biggest yet (with a pretty big outside terrace too). As with the others, this is a vegetarian restaurant inspired by Middle Eastern cuisine. You'll find quite a few of their signatures on the menu, like the must-have confit potato latkes with toum and they're promising some bnew specials here too.
Opening date: 19 October 2026
Roast Shoreditch
Shoreditch - 45 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3PT
After 20 years in Borough Market, we'd been hearing that Roast was looking to expand for a while and they finally settled on Shoreditch for their second restaurant. They're opening in the Virgin Hotel in Shoreditch (previously the Mondrian) and like the original, they'll have a British menu which includes big breakfasts and they should be a great place in shoreditch for a proper Sunday lunch.
Opening date: 21 October 2026
Here's what opened last week
Dishoom (London Bridge) - The ever-popular Bombay-inspired cafe opened just beside Borough Market.
Trindle Stores (Kew) - Ex-Teal head chef Abbie Hendren opens her own place.
Yield Essex Road (Islington) - The natural wine bar and shop's third incarnation.
Bunso (Kentish Town) - bakery by day, pizzeria by night, both woth Filipino flavours.
Cordelia's (Mayfair) - A new steakhouse for Mayfair.
Alto 19 (Canary Wharf) - High-rise Mediterranean.
Market Place Victoria (Victoria) - A new food hall, and the first that's actually inside a station.
Juno (Olympia) - Apparently Britain's biggest Italian restaurant.
Torino (Paddington) - High-rise Italian restaurant (+ bakery)
This week's events
22 October (London) - London’s South Asian supper club chefs are joining forces for Under The Same Moon, a 12-course Diwali feast at The Exchange in aid of the Nour Foundation. Hosted by Priya Bowry of Maji Drinks and Vegetarian Brown Girls, the evening will bring together chefs and food creators including Nour Elnono, Sugar Spice & Everything Nice, 3rd Culture Kat, Londis N16 and Homies Kitchen. 100% of ticket profits will go towards supporting people in Gaza.
22 October (King’s Cross) - Rotunda hosts a harvest dinner with Roebuck Estates, pairing a three-course sharing menu (£65) of British autumn produce with English sparkling wines from the West Sussex estate. Expect Maldon oysters, Gressingham duck with salt-baked celeriac and truffle granola, and butternut squash bavarois with quince sorbet.
23-24 October (Kentish Town) - Half Cut Market’s Head Chef Aidan Richardson-Dawkins is teaming up with MasterChef 2026 winner Jhané Gibson for a two-night dinner celebrating their Jamaican heritage. The menu will showcase Jamaican flavours, with dishes including escovitch fish, curried goat dumplings and a take on Jamaican fish tea soup, alongside jerk-smoked pork collar brined and smoked over pimento wood.
23-24 October (Islington) - Lee Tiernan is back in the old Black Axe Mangal space for two days only for a team-up with Kerrygold. He'll be serving up three sandwiches daily, and they're completely free (but limited to 300 per day).
24 October (Islington) - Godet celebrates its second birthday with an all-French takeover, from low-intervention wines and French craft beers to a French-only vinyl soundtrack. Ling Ling’s will serve a French-Chinese menu including yuzu oysters, beef tartare, seabass with lemongrass beurre blanc and smoky beef bavette.
25 October (Islington, Battersea, Shoreditch & Richmond) - NOCI celebrates World Pasta Day with 400 bowls of Cacio e Pepe priced at just 1p. From 3-5pm, the first 100 guests at each restaurant can grab a bowl when ordering another full-price dish, with 25 portions available to pre-book and the rest reserved for walk-ins.
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